On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 15:49:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
For example, Stroustrup has the article "Learning Standard C++
as a New Language"[1]. It compares sorting performance of C to
C++ in section 3, "Efficiency". With those old C and C++
compilers he used (in May 1999), C++ was 1.74 to 4.62
On 05/26/2017 05:10 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> in C, where sorting is done via the qsort() function. The comparison
> function must be provided by a function pointer. This means that the
> qsort function must call a function for doing even the simplest
> comparison.
For example, Stroustrup ha
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 11:05:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
The exclamation mark here is not a binary operator, it's used
in D templates to define where compile-time parameters are.
It actually is a binary operator, its left-hand-side is a
template and its right-hand-side is a template argu
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:59:26 UTC, zakk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just started using D and I am a bit puzzled by the syntax of
the sort function is std.algorithm.sorting, which is
sort!(comparingFunction)(list)
where comparingFunction is often a lambda expression. For
instance in the Wo
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 11:27:19 UTC, zakk wrote:
I have a followup question: my background is C and in Wolfram
Mathematica, so my knowledge of templates is limited to trivial
examples in C++, like:
template
const T& min(const T& lhs, const T& rhs)
{
return lhs < rhs ? lhs : rhs;
}
wh
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 11:27:19 UTC, zakk wrote:
I have a followup question: my background is C and in Wolfram
Mathematica, so my
knowledge of templates is limited to trivial examples in C++...
It seems to me that
when programming in D templates are something more powerful
Even in C++ temp
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 11:18:44 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:59:26 UTC, zakk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just started using D and I am a bit puzzled by the syntax of
the sort function is std.algorithm.sorting, which is
sort!(comparingFunction)(list)
where compar
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:59:26 UTC, zakk wrote:
My questions are:
1) Why is D making using of the binary ! operator, which as far
as I understand introduces a template?
The ! operator *instantiates* a template. Whenever you need to
specify compile-time arguments to match the template pa
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:59:26 UTC, zakk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just started using D and I am a bit puzzled by the syntax of
the sort function is std.algorithm.sorting, which is
sort!(comparingFunction)(list)
where comparingFunction is often a lambda expression. For
instance in the Wo
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:59:26 UTC, zakk wrote:
1) Why is D making using of the binary ! operator, which as far
as I understand introduces a template?
The exclamation mark here is not a binary operator, it's used in
D templates to define where compile-time parameters are.
2) Why is a te
Hello everyone,
I just started using D and I am a bit puzzled by the syntax of
the sort function is std.algorithm.sorting, which is
sort!(comparingFunction)(list)
where comparingFunction is often a lambda expression. For
instance in the Wolfram Language the equivalent function is
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